Ahmed Hirsi
Ilhan Omar's ex-husband
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Oct 18, 2026
Joe GettyHOST
This is the New York Post, obviously.
Joe GettyHOST
Omar was in an Islamic marriage with one man named Ahmed Hirsi, then married the man believed to be her brother, Ahmed Saeed Elmi, then divorced Elmi and officially married Hirsi, the first guy, again, before divorcing Hirsi and marrying a political consultant who is now her husband.
Joe GettyHOST
In her memoir, she says nothing of substance about Elmi, the alleged brother.
Joe GettyHOST
She doesn't use his name and claims she spent very little time with him.
Ben FergusonHOST
Now, that first issue involved her marital history.
Ben FergusonHOST
According to Omar's own accounts, she entered a religious marriage with a guy by the name of Ahmed Hirsi in 2002, although they did not legally marry at that time.
Ben FergusonHOST
They had children together.
Ben FergusonHOST
The relationship later ended in 2009.
Tony ReedHOST
"Birth records show she was 19 at the time.
Tony ReedHOST
2002, marries Ahmed Hirsi, father three of her children.
Tony ReedHOST
2008, she got divorced 'cause she's an evil bitch.
Tony ReedHOST
2009, she married her brother, Nur Said Elmi, who's a British national, did so to get him country.
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In fact, birth records show she was 19 years old at that time, which would have made it impossible for her to get automatic naturalization.
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So she got here fraudulently.
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In 2002, she married Ahmed Hirsi.
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Ahmed Hirsi ended up becoming the father of her three children, okay? She did not marry him legally.
ZhenfeiHOST
This involves three men.
ZhenfeiHOST
In 2002, 19-year-old Omar and her first partner, Ahmed Hirsi, we'll just call him Hirsi from here on out, held an Islamic religious wedding ceremony.
ZhenfeiHOST
Note that this was only a religious ceremony.
ZhenfeiHOST
They did not obtain a marriage license from the government.
Richard TrenPANELIST
One, she had an Islamic m- m- marriage to some guy and I, I looked up his name.
Richard TrenPANELIST
His name was Ahmed Hirsi.
Richard TrenPANELIST
Uh, but that seemed to have, she seemed to have left him, and then she married some dude called, uh, Ahmed Said Elmi.
Richard TrenPANELIST
Well, it turns out that this guy is apparently her brother, so she married her brother it seems to get him, uh, um, to, to, so that he could become a US resident and, and subsequently a, a US citizen.
Richard TrenPANELIST
Either that or she's really into incest, I don't know.
Richard TrenPANELIST
Um, and then she divorces the brother and marries, formerly marries this guy, Ahmed Hirsi, and then she divorces him, is now married to some other dude who's a sort of pol- political operative.
Richard TrenPANELIST
So there's, there's that stuff that she might have committed some other immigration crimes there.
Richard TrenPANELIST
But all of this comes, there's other murkiness out, out there.
Jillian MichaelsHOST
Walk us through that timeline.
NelsonGUEST
Omar had religious and legal marriages to Ahmed Hirsi and Ahmed Noor Said Elmi.
NelsonGUEST
Critics think Elmi may be a sibling.
NelsonGUEST
There's no federal marriage fraud charge and no immediate deportation, but the marriage record could still matter if it helps prove the family used a false identity in the first place.
Joe PagsHOST
Sources told the Post that the investigators could examine the accuracy of information provided during Omar's naturalization process, including her age and her father's background.
Joe PagsHOST
The report also revisiting long-standing un- unsubstantiated allegations that Omar's former husband, Ahmed Elmi, was her brother.
Joe PagsHOST
I'm sorry, why are they saying unsubstantiated? It is substantiated.
Joe PagsHOST
It is.
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Joe PagsHOST
This is, uh, written by Martin Gould in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the Daily Mail.
Joe PagsHOST
This was published twentieth of Fe- of February in 2020.
Joe PagsHOST
Squad Congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was, in fact, her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm, it says.
Joe PagsHOST
And now, for the first time, one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.
Isaac SaulHOST
I mean, it's, it's amazing by, uh, objective measures.
Isaac SaulHOST
Um, at the same time, you know, Will documented this really well, like, Omar married a man in 2002, Ahmed Hirsi, but didn't complete the application process for a civil marriage.
Isaac SaulHOST
She and Hirsi separated in 2008, then she formally married this other guy, Ahmed Nur- Nuru Said Elmi, the man who people allege is her brother, the next year.
Isaac SaulHOST
Omar and Elmi separated in 2011, but don't legally divorce until 2017.
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This is the guy who is supposedly her brother.
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Then she married another Somali man a year later named Ahmed Hirsi.
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Then in 2020, she married a white guy named Tim Mynett.
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They're still married.
Drew AllenHOST
She finally files for legal divorce from Elmi, eight years after the wedding.
Drew AllenHOST
So one month before she legally marries Ahmed Hirsi, the father of her three children.
Drew AllenHOST
Now, 2019, the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, a state board, not Trump's, finds that for 2014 and 2015, she filed joint tax returns with Hersey, married filing jointly, while legally married to Elmy.
Drew AllenHOST
You cannot file jointly with a man you're not married to.
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